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Tuesday, June 03, 2008

General Purpose Debugger for Core File Analysis

One of my co-workers had an early morning interview for a Principal Systems Administration position. Per the job description, he thought the position dealt mostly with Windows-based systems and a little UNIX. But after chatting with him post-interview, it was apparent that it was the latter. He seemed a bit shell-shocked. Why? He said the much younger interviewer had a plethora of detailed questions related to UNIX commands. I don't think he prepared as well for the UNIX side as he did for the Windows side. Unfortunately, he was only given a couple days to prepare.

Here is one of several commands he kept asking me about.

What UNIX command do you use when you want to perform analysis on a core file?

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